Swedish Serial Killer Saga Unraveled

Book Written About False Confessions of Thomas Quick

By

Johannes Ledel and

Niclas Rolander

July 31, 2013 7:05 a.m. ET

STOCKHOLM—Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday dropped the last of eight murder convictions against a man who was once seen as the country's worst serial killer, ending a long-running case that the chief prosecutor called a failure of the country's justice system.

Sture Bergwall, 63 years old, once widely known in Sweden by the alias Thomas Quick, in the 1990s confessed to about 30 grisly murders and was convicted of eight.